Free Will

[Pyrrho]

Very tired of arguing against contra-causal and compatabilist free will... done it so many times over the years and recently too. So I'm just gonna drop this video and a quote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FanhvXO9Pk

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There is another difference with the crocodile (versus the man with an ax) that he does not bring up.  If it gets away, one generally has no qualms about hunting down the crocodile later and killing it.  In fact, it is often regarded as the right thing to do, to prevent it from attacking others.  No trial, just go kill it.  If I take that same attitude towards the man, I will be regarded as a murderer.

In other words, he needs to fill out his story a bit more, as I rather doubt he is endorsing the idea that it should be okay to hunt down the ax-wielding man and kill him.  And if that is so, then he wants us to have a different attitude toward the two situations.  And that needs to be explained.


However, most of what he says is quite compatible with what I am saying in this thread.  He does not want to use the phrase "free will" to indicate something that is compatible with determinism.  So he does not want to use that phrase as I do.  In other words, we have a linguistic disagreement.  But he does say that it is important to be able to be free to do what one wills.